On 04/30/2012 01:11 PM, Peter Breitenlohner wrote: > On Mon, 30 Apr 2012, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > >> Unfortunately, this patch breaks automake with older autoconfs (e.g., 2.62), >> even when the Objective C++ is not used. For example: >> ... >> This is due to the unconditional use of 'AC_PROG_OBJCXX' in >> AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE. I've >> squashed in the diff below, that solves the issue. > > Hi Stefano, > > Oops. Initially in 2009 the idea was to require Autoconf 2.65, > I think bumping the required autoconf version to 2.65 will be ok for the next major Automake release (1.13), but not for a maintenance release like Automake 1.12.1.
> but with this workaround there is no need to do that. You should, > however, add this to the list of things to clean up once Automake > requires Autoconf >= 2.65 (assuming there is such a list). > On the todo list for master then. Thanks, Stefano